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Sully Prudhomme

René François Armand Prudhomme
Paris 1839 - Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine 1907
French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. He grew up in Lyon-Croix-Rousse
(Wikipedia)

Marius Léon Cladel
1914

Description

Marble bust on a column, with a mourning muse.

Bruno Pélissier is obviously the architect of the monument.

Inscription(s)

SULLY PRUDHOMME
1839.1907

Signature

Bruno Pelissier

Sculptor

Marius Léon Cladel (Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine 1883 - 1948), French sculptor (Biography – Wikipedia).).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Liste des œuvres publiques de Lyon.
Daniel F. Valot, Jeux et Photos de Lyon, Statues.
Un monument a Sully-Prudhomme, La Construction lyonnaise, 16 June 1914, (PDF on-line).
Académie française, Inauguration du monument de Sully Prudhomme, à Lyon .

Locatie (N 45°46'27" - E 4°50'9") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra190; Photograph: 14 August 2018
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